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The truth on Iraq

March 20, 2006

The News has been relentelessly negative in yahoo news.

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To get a fresh perspective check out the voices of Iraq. 150 cameras from the Iraqi people created this film.

Of course the silence is deafening on the documents from the old regime. The most intriguing document, dated four days after the 9/11 attacks, is titled “Osama bin Laden and the Taliban.”

According to an ABC News translation, an Afghani informant told Saddam’s Mukhabarrat intelligence service that Afghani Consul Ahmed Dahastani claimed the following in front of him:

That OBL and the Taliban are in contact with Iraq and that a group of Taliban and bin Laden group members visited Iraq.

That the U.S. has proof the Iraqi government and “bin Laden’s group” agreed to cooperate to attack targets inside America.

The Connection : How al Qaeda\'s Collaboration with Saddam Hussein Has Endangered America ABC is having a hard time accepting these documents that were produced from Iraq itself for goodness sake.

In May 2003, U.S. District Judge Harold Baer created precedense when he awarded 2 9/11 victim families $104 million based on their claim that Iraq played a material role in the attacks.

Evidence introduced at the trial included testimony from former CIA director James Woolsey, along with accounts from Iraqi defectors who claimed they were trained to hijack U.S. airliners at Saddam’s terrorist training camp, Salman Pak.

Former interim Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi believed that Iraq had a hand in 9/11.Allawi said: “We are uncovering evidence all the time of Saddam’s involvement with al-Qaeda.

“This is the most compelling piece of evidence that we have found so far. It shows that not only did Saddam have contacts with al-Qaeda, he had contact with those responsible for the September 11 attacks,” he added.

The document indicates that Saddam personally granted bin Laden’s request for help with propaganda broadcasts and instructed his agents “to develop the relationship [with bin Laden] and the cooperation between the two sides to see what other doors of cooperation and agreement open up.”

The 1996 Iraqi intelligence document goes on to report: “Currently we are working to invigorate this relationship through a new channel in light of his present location [Afghanistan].”

The reference by Iraqi intelligence to “joint operations” with bin Laden apparently contradicts one of the 9/11 Commission’s most important findings: that Saddam had no “operational relationship” with al Qaeda.

Written by untiled · Filed Under Conservative Liberal Moral Politics 

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